Keep your kids of Roblox.
Keep your kids out of alleys.
Keep your kids out of normal places that bad actors take advantage of. That would be everywhere they can exist..... The answer isn't to hide the world from your kids. They will find the world when you aren't looking, and the world will find them. Go with them when you can, let them go alone when you can.
My kid has been playing on Roblox for years, and my limited protection has been to disable chat, turn on the age limit restrictions for games - when they turn 13 they will be able to play games rated for 13 year olds.
I said the answer isn't to hide the world from your kid, but then I won't let them watch 'squid game', even though 'everyone' at school is talking about it. (They are in 5th grade). They will be able to watch it eventually when they are older, and I assume if they really want to they will find a way to secretly watch it sooner than that. I can't control everything.

The quality of decisions most companies get from their CEO is indistinguishable from what an AI/ML would give. I'm not saying the AI is that good, I'm saying the executives are that bad. They are also the biggest opportunity for cost reduction in the company. I work in automotive, and several CEOs make around 40+ million a year. That implies that the executive board might be close to a 500 million cost to the company....

"Tech-backed nonprofit Code.org on Wednesday fired the latest salvo in its legal battle over $3 million in unpaid licensing fees for the use of Code.org's free [for non-commercial purposes] K-12 computer science curriculum by WhiteHat Jr., the learn-to-code edtech company with a controversial past that was bought for $300M in 2020 by Byju's, another edtech firm that received a $50M investment from Mark Zuckerberg's venture firm that still touts its ties to Zuckerberg on its Investors page."

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That hurt to read.

Most uprated comments are tying this to Covid ending, but it is more like the number of lawsuits arguing that the app store is illegal have died down, so Apple is returning to its old ways of monopolizing the app store. pretty straight forward.

The older I get and the more I really look at things, the more they look like Uranus.

A Wrangler 4xe uses a 17kWh pack to get 22 miles, or ~30 km range. Obviously the lowest of the current PHEVs out there, but probably representative of a car converted to electric PHEV usage. Wranglers get ~20mpg, most cars don't get more than ~40 mpg, so I would ballpark realistic range for a 15kWh pack at below 60 km. Converting an older car with average aero drag, average drivetrain drag (even if it is only the wheels & maybe axles) and average tires mean it is more likely to be under 40 km, on a good day. PHEVs do a lot more than just add the motor & battery to get the range they claim. Well, besides a Wrangler. :D

Also the news; why does the news need to create digital replicas that aren't part of digital affairs? That really feels like a loophole for "news" to create "news" without repercussions.

There is a lot of "just be a parent", but a lot of being a parent isn't monitoring everything your kid does. It isn't just a lightswitch event when they turn 18 where they are independent and can handle everything the world throws at them. Part of raising a child is letting them do things themselves and making mistakes and handling it themselves. Kids need to learn to think for themselves and learn to be independent. Parenting isn't just 'everything goes through me'. Balancing letting your child be more independent as they get older, trying to monitor things along the way, is harder than most on here think. Unless you want a perpetual man-child programmer in your basement.

This isn't "If it shows up on my bill, they can list it". That really *is* that easy. The ISPs are admitting without admitting they are using illegal fees, and possibly fees they don't actually know they are charging, and don't want the public or government to find out. They have so many local sports fees and other fees, they probably haven't kept up with which ones are still legal, and practically speaking, they don't want to. Lobbying is cheaper.

...accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who "had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information." ... and continue to have access to...
AND CONTINUE TO HAVE ACCESS TO

Why is this Meta's problem?

Australian government says after a year their law is largely successful.
https://treasury.gov.au/sites/...

It sounds like Europe has put a framework in that various countries can use to implement similar laws, like France did:
https://www.euronews.com/2022/...

This is not an isolated event in Canada, and Google, Facebook & others will negotiate like they have in the past.

It seems like you REALLY need the car the other 99% of the time, and for the road trip it is honestly optional. I mean, planes, trains & busses are usually available, and yes I have used all of those, although car trips are the most common. Regardless, it sounds like you have never tried to rent a car. Rental agencies are set up to make sure you have a rental, even in unusually high demand situations. I mean, renting you a car is their business. Do you avoid restaurants because they might be out of food?
It can even be a good thing to rent a car - try something new! try something bigger, or smaller, or more sporty, or more luxurious. The last time I had a cross-country road trip with my family, I rented. The car, not the family. Not because I had to, but because I could. In that case, going over the lease mileage on our car would have been costly, so the rental wasn't much more. We got to try something new for a week!
Also, besides rental companies there are several apps like Turo where you can rent other peoples cars.

People taking classes to learn how to socialize is old as dirt.
Telling people what the dress code at work is, also is old as dirt.
Teaching people how to use office tools like email is old as... concrete?

What if the people living on the streets there were able to able to live in buildings... converted into living space?!? CRAZY!!!! No no no no, lets just build million dollar apartments and then complain when no-one moves in, and get another resolution passed to subsidize our bad decisions with government money. But none of that SOCIALISM!! It's BAAAADDD!!!

If you believe this, I have a great superhero name for you using your street address, pets name, bank account # and social security number. It the web page comes up with 'Thank you for your cooperation", just keep trying with other family members info. It will work!

The internet has been big for 30 years, and there is no one version of it, even now. Do I wish social media didn't destroy forums, and hide all the info people are trying to disperse into the internet behind a login and data mining and keeping it out of basic internet search tools? Yeah, obviously. Hopefully this is changing as people see how manipulative social media companies are and how eager they are to ignore damage to society for monetary gain. Almost like oil companies or any other industry that consolidates too much and can wield too much control over something.